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To Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell with Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and Actor Chen Kun in Honor of Its First Anniversary As a NASDAQ- Listed Company Bona Film Group (BONA) to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell With Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and Actor Chen Kun in Honor of Its First Anniversary as a NASDAQ- Listed Company ADVISORY, Dec. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: Bona Film Group Limited (BONA), a leading film distributor in China with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, film production, film exhibition and talent representation, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to ring the opening bell in honor of Bona's one year anniversary as a publicly listed company and to promote its soon- to-be-released 3D IMAX blockbuster Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate will be the first Chinese-language production to be released in IMAX 3D. The film is directed by renowned director Tsui Hark and stars Jet Li, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun. Attending the one-year anniversary celebration will be actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and actor Chen Kun along with Bona's CEO Yu Dong and CFO Mason Xu. Where: NASDAQ MarketSite — 4 Times Square — 43rd & Broadway — Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 9th, 2011 — 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET Contact: Adrianna Qi Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (212) 880-5223 [email protected] NASDAQ MarketSite: Jen Knapp (212) 401-8916 [email protected] Feed Information: Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463 Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West 18 mhz Lower DL 3811 Vertical FEC 3/4 SR 13.235 DR 18.295411 MOD 4:2:0 DVBS QPSK Facebook and Twitter: For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx For news tweets, please visit our Twitter page at: http://twitter.com/nasdaqomx Webcast: A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com. Photos: To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice. About Bona Film Group Limited (BONA): Bona Film Group Limited (Nasdaq:BONA) is a leading film distributor in China, with an integrated business model encompassing film distribution, film production, film exhibition and talent representation. Bona distributes films to Greater China, Korea, Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe, invests and produces movies in a variety of genres, owns and operates eleven movie theaters and manages a range of talented and popular Chinese artists. For more information about Bona, please visit http://www.bonafilm.cn. The Bona Film Group Limited logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=8412 About NASDAQ OMX: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). NDAQA Source: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. News Provided by Acquire Media.
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